RE: [Sheflug] Content management with Plone

["Chris Johnson" <chris [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 1) Whilst Mambo's 'authors' (any normal user with the
> relevant permissions)
> can create and edit their own content from the front end,
> they can't upload
> images etc. only the authorised backend users can do this. I
> can see some
> very good reasons why this should be so, but I can also see
> an administrative
> nightmare once the site content grows.
>
Could you not install a gallery module to allow people to upload images and
then get them to link to their images in teh gallery?  (I have no idea how
technical your authors are!)


> 2) Authors can create pieces of content anywhere in the site.
> If this is not
> the most appropriate place is seems impossible via the
> backend management
> functions to move it somewhere else. This is also a problem
> if the site needs
> to be reorganised for convenient use as it grows.
>

User training?


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>The issue is not server performance particularly, it is more to do
> with the usability of the site when there are (say) several
> hundred different
> sections (or 'minisites') which need to be organised in some
> way. Mambo
> appears nice and tidy, has some useful plug-ins for a
> community site, but to
> me it looks like it needs another layer between its sections,
> categories and
> content elements.
>

I think there is a plug in/module/component for Mambo to run multiple mambo
sites on one server!  ...if this would help.

Chris Johnson
(No not that one, the other one!)
(running SUSE 9, 512MB PIII 600 (ish))

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